[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 164 (Thursday, August 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 51033]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-20798]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Office of Refugee Resettlement
[C.F.D.A. Numbers: 93.566 and 93.584]
Notice of Change in Notification of Refugee Social Services and
Targeted Assistance Formula Grant Allocations
AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, ACF, HHS.
ACTION: Notification of change.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), is changing the notification to States and
Wilson/Fish Alternative Project grantees of final Social Services and
Targeted Assistance formula grant awards. Under these two programs,
formula grants are allotted to States based on the eligible population
in each State. States and Wilson/Fish Alternative Project grantees use
the grant awards to provide employment and other resettlement services
to refugees, Amerasians, asylees, Cuban and Haitian entrants, victims
of trafficking, and Iraqis and Afghans with Special Immigrant Visas.
Sections 412(c)(1)(B) and 412(c)(2)(A) of the Immigration and
Nationality Act do not require applications for the Social Services and
Targeted Assistance formula grant programs. ORR has the discretion to
alter the process by which States and Wilson/Fish Alternative Project
grantees are notified of their annual allocations. Therefore, in an
effort to streamline the process, an annual Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) will no longer be published. Instead, in addition to
annual publication of a notice in the Federal Register, ORR will now
also post tables of the allocations and the population figures used to
calculate the award amount on the ORR Web site. In addition, official
notification of awards will be provided to States and Wilson/Fish
Alternative Project grantees by ACF's Division of Mandatory Grants.
DATES: This change is effective immediately.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henley Portner, Office of the
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, (202) 401-5363,
Henley.Portner@acf.hhs.gov.
Statutory Authority: Sections 412(c)(1)(B) and 412(c)(2)(A) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1522(c)(1)(B)
and (c)(2)(A)).
Eskinder Negash,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. 2012-20798 Filed 8-22-12; 8:45 am]
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